Words matter. These are the best Janet Reno Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I think police officers can work with social workers and public health nurses to do so much in terms of addressing the problem of American families, of children in American families as a whole, and giving them an opportunity to get off to a fresh start, to become self-sufficient, to lead safe, constructive lives.
I would like to use the law of this land to do everything I possibly can to protect America’s children from abuse and violence and to give to each of them the opportunity to grow to be strong, healthy and self-sufficient citizens of this country.
I think lawyers who engage in pro bono service to protect those who cannot help themselves are truly the heroes and the heroines of the legal profession.
While I’m the Attorney General, we will address each issue with one question: What’s the right thing to do?
Stereotypes should never influence policy or public opinion.
Police and prosecutors and the courts have got to talk together.
If you have a good community behind you and a good family supporting you, then, when the buck stops with you, there is the strength of that community and that family to draw upon.
We’ve got to understand that the ages of zero to three are the most formative years of a person’s life, the time they learn the concept of reward and punishment and develop a conscience, and that 50 percent of all learned human response is learned in the first year of life.
I think that a woman’s right to choose should be protected. I think it should be protected from physical conduct that prevents that right to choose from being freely exercised.
One of the most important parts of my life has been community.
Simply put, if we can reduce the risk while increasing protection during the course of a young person’s life, we can prevent problems and promote the healthy development of our children, our families, our economy, and the institutions we hold dear.
I’m a scuba diver but not certified.
While service in the Department of Justice is itself one of the highest forms of public service, the Department further strides to increase access to justice for all and to strengthen our communities.
My father was born in Denmark. He came to this country when he was 12 years old.
The law as a profession has provided me with more satisfaction than I ever dreamed.
I know from personal experience what it’s like to be discriminated against. I remember people telling me, ‘Ladies don’t become lawyers,’ and now I look at America and know what can be done.
We’ve got to make sure that the young, violent, serious juvenile offender is punished, that it’s fair punishment, that it’s punishment that fits the crime and that is understood and that is anticipated and expected.
I love good and caring lawyers who are advocates, who are defenders, who are problem-solvers, and who are peacemakers.
Do and act on what you believe to be right, and you’ll wake up the next morning feeling good about yourself.
I would like to explore and see this country. I have had so many opportunities to see it from the air! I would like to climb the mountains that I wished I could climb at the time but had to get back to Washington.
I think the answer to civil disorder in America, the answer to police problems in America, the answer to jail overcrowding and all the problems that we see is – the one answer is that government must go back to its people.
Too many Americans mistrust their government. And unnecessary government secrecy feeds this mistrust.
I’m interested in elder justice and what we can do about elder abuse and neglect.
At this moment I do not have a personal relationship with a computer.
We’ve got to look to our educational programs and focus on doing what we can to stem violence in the schools.
I just try to do my best and make the best judgments I can.
We want to look at everything we can do that’s right and proper under federal law, and with federal laws to see that the children of America are given a chance to grow as strong, constructive, healthy human beings. It’s the best investment we can possibly make in America.
I made a promise to myself when I graduated from law school that I would never do anything that I didn’t enjoy doing, and almost every day of the year since that June of 1963, I have awakened glad that I was going to work, glad that I was going to court, glad that I was going to grapple with a problem.
My earnest hope is that what we started in terms of building partnerships with communities across America will continue, that we will continue our efforts to reduce crime and violence.
I worked with some wonderful people, tried my best and I feel comfortable.
America, in all its institutions, whether it be the family or government, has forgotten and neglected its children.
It is the police of America who are on the front lines, who are on the streets, who are in the daily contact with American citizens, who translate the dreams of American citizens when they succeed and frustrate the dreams when they fail.
We’re building on an international network with many others for the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. There are so many things we can do to carry forward policies.
If the end brings me out right, what people said about me won’t make any difference, and if the end brings me out wrong, 10 angels saying I was right won’t make any difference.
We simply must find ways both to bridge the differences that still seem to divide us and focus on the things that we share.
Anybody that thought that I tried to protect the president has forgotten that I asked for the expansion of the Monica Lewinsky matter.
I think young people can make such an extraordinarily important difference in making this world a better place.
I think our young people are our most precious possession.
One of the reasons I love the law is because I was raised in family – my grandfather was a lawyer, but more importantly, my grandmother was his secretary. And she taught me that lawyers were some of the most civil, most courteous – and in those days, most courtly – people that she knew.
We, the American people, owe the nation’s police officers our deepest gratitude, our best efforts, and our strong support, for they have done so much for us against such great odds.
I love lawyers. And I like to talk to lawyers, and I like to engage in a spirited discussion with lawyers.
Each generation looks to its children to keep our society moving and to make life better.
If somebody thinks I have an integrity problem, then the honest thing to do is to tell me what they think it is and let me address it.
There may sometimes be a mistake, but I think that the citizens of America who are sworn to uphold their duty in a jury setting are going to try to do their best to do that regardless of the consequences.
It was not the president’s responsibility to run a law enforcement operation. It was ours.
Unless the law issues from all of the people, some of the people will feel left out. They will come to feel alienated. They will be angry. And this will not be a cohesive democracy.
It’s fine to get paid and get a big verdict, but to go out and represent people, sometimes in unglamorous ways, is really what lawyering is all about.
We must heal the divisions caused by intolerance and bigotry.
Everybody should want to make sure that we have the cyber tools necessary to investigate cyber crimes, and to be prepared to defend against them and to bring people to justice who commit it.
I collected child support in Dade County, and they wrote a rap song about me, so the kids knew about it, and they started asking me questions about child support. What happens if she wastes the money? What happens if he doesn’t pay? And I answered the questions.
The first job I ever had in my life was in the Dade County Sheriff’s Office in the Identification Bureau in the summer that I graduated from high school and was getting ready to go to college.
Diversity is valued, and it is prized. We learn to appreciate each other and each other’s struggles. From diversity, we draw our enormous and our lasting strength.
Juveniles as well as adults need to know they’re going to be punished for their violent acts.
We must try to understand the true weight of law enforcement officers’ burdens.
I have learned that raising children is the single most difficult thing in the world to do. It takes hard work, love, luck, and a lot of energy, and it is the most rewarding experience that you can ever have.
I would like to visit with people who are so interesting and so… and there are so many wonderful people out there that I would love to have the chance to talk to for a longer time.
I admire law enforcement agents who put their lives on the line to enforce the law while building trust and understanding within a community and around the world. I honor those who seek justice for all the people of this country.
We tried our best for the longest time to negotiate a peaceful resolution to the matter, and at each step, we were thwarted by those that said, No, we will not turn the boy over to his father.
The Bar Association can do so much in teaching people how to resolve conflicts without knives and guns and fists.
What we must do is to sit down together as reasonable people and make our government do what is right, and stop doing what may be wrong-headed or wasteful.